pesphoto
Veteran
A great idea for dying screens. I may steal that if it's ok.
oh...if you look at my blog I have drawn up a layout for my darkoom Im currently building.
blw
Well-known
Yes...an entire night's work in the darkroom down the tubes.
But I can't say I wasn't warned since it did say it on the cover.
I only have gloss paper from good fortune. One of the old-timers in my photo club hadn't used the paper since the 80s and he just gave it to me. It still works fine!
But I can't say I wasn't warned since it did say it on the cover.
I only have gloss paper from good fortune. One of the old-timers in my photo club hadn't used the paper since the 80s and he just gave it to me. It still works fine!
Kevin
Rainbow Bridge
Once digital enlargers drop to prices that amateurs can afford most hobby darkrooms will be put back to frequent use. Setting and cleaning up take the most time but that would be time well spent if hobbyists could significantly speed up the wet printing process itself.
What ever happened to that company in Brighton? Are they still producing digital enlargers?
What ever happened to that company in Brighton? Are they still producing digital enlargers?
Henrik
Member
My first contact sheet
Printed some days agoAl Kaplan
Veteran
I just got another order for an 11 X 14 silver print of one of my 1967 Janis Joplin photos, and I'm out of them. Time to make up another ten. It might take a few years to unload them all but so what! I still get calls from people who want me to shoot someting with traditional B&W film. I'm still printing with enlargers, easels, lenses, trays, etc. that I bought back in the early to mid 1960's, and mostly second hand at that.
I've got some prints hanging at a local gallery. The owner labled them with a price and the words "Silver Print". It means something to a collector. In the meantime my equipment cost is limited to perhaps a couple of bulbs a year, and I still have my negatives and contact sheets neatly filed going back to 1961.
Another way to look at the viability of B&W film, paper, and chemical is not how much has been replaced first with color and now digital, but how much is sold today compared to 1908. Back then there were a lot of companies competing for the business. Some of them must have been relatively small players but they were in business before being bought out by or merging with other companies. I don't think many just went bye-bye. DuPont absorbed Defender before pulling out of the sensitized materials market about 1968 but Ansco and Agfa had some kind of co-operative arrangemsent, Gevaert and Agfa merged. Fuji has taken up a lot of the slack. There are several small paper makers producing premium papers. Lucky in China is still in business and growning.
Consider the current glut of cheaply priced top of the line enlargers, lenses, and accessories as a buying opportunity!
I've got some prints hanging at a local gallery. The owner labled them with a price and the words "Silver Print". It means something to a collector. In the meantime my equipment cost is limited to perhaps a couple of bulbs a year, and I still have my negatives and contact sheets neatly filed going back to 1961.
Another way to look at the viability of B&W film, paper, and chemical is not how much has been replaced first with color and now digital, but how much is sold today compared to 1908. Back then there were a lot of companies competing for the business. Some of them must have been relatively small players but they were in business before being bought out by or merging with other companies. I don't think many just went bye-bye. DuPont absorbed Defender before pulling out of the sensitized materials market about 1968 but Ansco and Agfa had some kind of co-operative arrangemsent, Gevaert and Agfa merged. Fuji has taken up a lot of the slack. There are several small paper makers producing premium papers. Lucky in China is still in business and growning.
Consider the current glut of cheaply priced top of the line enlargers, lenses, and accessories as a buying opportunity!
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Pablito
coco frío
gosh, I could spend all my time between the stamp collection, the 'lectric trains, the slot cars...
rogerchristian
Established
The University of Iowa Art Department lost their entire b/w darkroom in the floods this summer.
They plan to replace the darkroom sometime next year. I have access to a number of gently used enlargers and darkroom equipment so we should be able to equip the new setup pretty expensively.
The old darkroom was a classic, but the same stuff was in use since roughly the early '60's. So, in one respect the flood was a real good thing, and the new design should (!?) be an improvement. Tough way to lose some classic Omega's, though.
The wet-darkroom seems to be alive an well in this area anyway, at both college and high school level.
They plan to replace the darkroom sometime next year. I have access to a number of gently used enlargers and darkroom equipment so we should be able to equip the new setup pretty expensively.
The old darkroom was a classic, but the same stuff was in use since roughly the early '60's. So, in one respect the flood was a real good thing, and the new design should (!?) be an improvement. Tough way to lose some classic Omega's, though.
The wet-darkroom seems to be alive an well in this area anyway, at both college and high school level.
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
Is it over??? Yes...well at least for tonight...will finish tomorrow what I couldn't get to this evening...
Doing some 8x10 RC Glossy Borderless prints from 645 negs...
Doing some 8x10 RC Glossy Borderless prints from 645 negs...